{ "item_title" : "Saint Serotonin", "item_author" : [" Warsan Shire "], "item_description" : "The award-winning author of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head returns with a poetry collection of chemical intensity, where love--or the fever-dream of it--threatens to consume the most precious parts of a self. Ya Allah if it / will keep my heart soft, please break / my heart everyday. A woman meets a man. She carries, as we all do, the weight of her childhood, the story of her parents, the body she was born into. Endorphins race in her-- their love is fated. But what comes after the miracle of love? Warsan Shire is beloved for gently holding the tender parts of a diasporic generation: poems that truly see--and cry with and rage for--those scattered by war. Poems that peek into the hidden conversations between women that helped them survive. In Saint Serotonin, the world narrows to a single, ferocious flame of obsession. With an anatomist's eye, Shire paints an uncompromising and complicated portrait of a woman in love, from the jitters of infatuation to the ecstatic wager of losing oneself in another: The only side effect: / nothing will ever be enough. These are poems of reckless intoxication, tuned to desire's contradictory faces: devotion, abasement, tenderness, addiction. Sensual, subversive, perfume-scented yet horror-tinged, Saint Serotonin ensnares us in its intimate derangements, rich with indelible language and searing physicality: Trust me, he loves me. / Have mercy, he loves me. As our narrator fights her way back to herself, who will she be when she emerges? Featuring brand-new poems alongside some of Shire's most beloved pieces (including For Women Who Are Difficult to Love) this collection is at once a promise and a warning, an invocation and an excavation of what it is to love and be loved.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/59/397/967/0593979672_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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